reefkprz
Active Member
well we all know how much coralife super skimmer stink, but after changing the sump on my 65g to a rubbermaid tote and placing the sump itself onto an elevated platform am sealing under the platform to catch minor spills. I didnt have enough room to put the skimmer back on the tank.
after about a month skimmerless, with my feeding habits I am getting a cyanobloom in the 65, not a suprise so I went all creative and built a remote station for my skimmer.
works pretty good so far. I put the poly pads in the old "drip" section just so I can kick up detritus and junk over the next couple weeks and change it out without doing a lot of water changes. as you can see by how nasty the polypad looks, its working. this has only been running (at the time of the picture) for 6 hours or so. I keep reaching in the tank and kicking up nasty stuff and blowing around detritus.
in the end, ANY skimmer is better than no skimmer.
the water level in my sump is lower than its going to be but I broke a heater in my mixing tank and need to clean it out which entails ripping my entire fish closet apart, because I cant remove the tank without removing th stand its on the closet isnt wide enough to get one out around the other. I may have to rethink this set up.
after about a month skimmerless, with my feeding habits I am getting a cyanobloom in the 65, not a suprise so I went all creative and built a remote station for my skimmer.
works pretty good so far. I put the poly pads in the old "drip" section just so I can kick up detritus and junk over the next couple weeks and change it out without doing a lot of water changes. as you can see by how nasty the polypad looks, its working. this has only been running (at the time of the picture) for 6 hours or so. I keep reaching in the tank and kicking up nasty stuff and blowing around detritus.
in the end, ANY skimmer is better than no skimmer.
the water level in my sump is lower than its going to be but I broke a heater in my mixing tank and need to clean it out which entails ripping my entire fish closet apart, because I cant remove the tank without removing th stand its on the closet isnt wide enough to get one out around the other. I may have to rethink this set up.